LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

15.98 in. (40.60 cm.) (height) by 24.02 in. (61.00 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

Paris, 1794, C. oncours de l'an II (where it won second prize

Literature:

J. Guillaume, . Procès-verbaux du Comité d'Instruction publique de l'Assemblée Législative, Paris 1889;. C. Blanc, . Le Trésor de la curiosité tiré des catalogues de vente.., Paris 1857-58, vol. II, p. 409;. A. d'Escragnolle Taunay, "A missao aristica de 1816," in. Revista do instituto historico et geographico brazileiro , no. 74, 1912, p. 29;. J. Bourguigon, . Napoléon Bonaparte , Paris 1936, vol. I., p. 68;. . Arte Hoje , vol. I, December 1977, p. 27-32, reproduced;. B. Gallini, in . La Révolution française et l'Europe 1789-1799 , exhibition catalogue, Grand Palais, Paris, 1989, vol. III, p. 834-837;. C. Lebrun Jouve, . Nicolas-Antoine Taunay , Paris 2003, p. 190, cat. no. P. 352

Provenance:

Sale, Paris, 9-10 April 1827, lot 76;. Sale, Paris, 17 March 1971, lot 41 (for 12,500 FF);. Sale, Rio de Janeiro, 21 November 1977, lot F.57;. Private collection, Rio de Janeiro;. By whom anonymously sold, 28 May 1981, lot 18